Now I'm watching a match (on EUROSPORT 2) between Wisła Kraków (current champions of Poland) and GKS Bełchatów (an average team) at brand new stadium (just for the record; the stadium has been rebuilt). It has over 30,000 seats, fulfills most of the required standards and looks decent. But what I see? I see an empty stadium with less than 10,000 spectators watching the game. I say what the ****? Through so many years Polish fans have been complained about the lack of stadiums, infrastucture etc. but when they have it, they do not use it at all.
We have lived in the Medieval times so many years, thanks to the communists but now everything's changed. We are co-organising the EURO 2012, building new sport venues and stuff. Every town has a brand new stadium or is building it or will build it in the near future. So why poeple do not come to their dream stadiums? To tell the truth, the new stadiums aren't full even on the opening games. Then what's wrong; are the tickets so expensive? Or perhaps people thought, that, along with changing infrastucture also level of Polish teams will change? Were they that stupid? I'm really worried about the big cities with the largest population of people; their stadiums are also half empty and do not attract fans even on the classics, there are a lot of people but stadiums are not full. Everywhere I go I hear that people are excited about football, talk about it all the time but when you look at the attendance it's different.
It makes me think; did supporting football club become second or even third choice way of spending free time with family, friends? Or, we live in era of gloryhunteres; where people come to stadiums when their team is on top, but, when it's not so good they lose interest. How does it look like in your countries/cities; or is it only Poland?
We have lived in the Medieval times so many years, thanks to the communists but now everything's changed. We are co-organising the EURO 2012, building new sport venues and stuff. Every town has a brand new stadium or is building it or will build it in the near future. So why poeple do not come to their dream stadiums? To tell the truth, the new stadiums aren't full even on the opening games. Then what's wrong; are the tickets so expensive? Or perhaps people thought, that, along with changing infrastucture also level of Polish teams will change? Were they that stupid? I'm really worried about the big cities with the largest population of people; their stadiums are also half empty and do not attract fans even on the classics, there are a lot of people but stadiums are not full. Everywhere I go I hear that people are excited about football, talk about it all the time but when you look at the attendance it's different.
It makes me think; did supporting football club become second or even third choice way of spending free time with family, friends? Or, we live in era of gloryhunteres; where people come to stadiums when their team is on top, but, when it's not so good they lose interest. How does it look like in your countries/cities; or is it only Poland?